8CE2-WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING II                                   L 3 T 1

UNIT: 1

Regulation of works:

Falls, Classification of falls, Design of falls, Distributory head regulator

and cross-head regulator, Escape, bed bars.

Cross-Drainage Structure:

Necessity of Cross-drainage structures, their types and selection,

comparative merits and demerits, design of various types of cross-drainage structure-aqueducts,

syphon aqueduct, superpassage syphon, level crossing and other types.

UNIT: 2

Diversion Head works:

Design for surface and subsurface flows, Bligh’s and Khosla’s methods.

Selection of site and layout, different parts of diversion headworks, types of weirs and barrages,

design of weirs on permeable foundation, silt excluders and different types of silt ejectors. Energy

dissipation.

UNIT: 3

Embankment Dams:

Suitable sites, causes of failures, stability and seepage analysis, flownet,

slope stability analysis, precautions of piping,  principles of design of earth dams.

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Gravity Dams:

Force acting on a gravity dam, stability requirements, Instrumentation

UNIT: 4

Spillways:

Spillway capacity, flood routing through spillways, different types of spillways and

gates, energy dissipation below spillways.

Hydro Power Plant:

General features of hydroelectric schemes, elements of power house

structure, selection of turbines, draft tube and setting of turbine, cavitations.

UNIT: 5

Reservoirs:

Evaluation of impact of water projects on river regimes and environment. Reservoir

sedimentation and  water shed management.

Optimization:

Introduction to optimization techniques and system approach. Introduction to